His mother took him to Springfield, where she did factory work but eventually became the host of a women's program on a local radio station.
Teenagers who once would have dropped out to do factory work instead stayed in high school, notes Claudia Goldin, an economist who recently wrote a history of education with Mr. Katz.
His salary was somewhat higher than that of villagers who do factory work — $155 is their average monthly haul — but he received no benefits other than free meals and housing in a factory dormitory, which he said he didn't need.
In the summers, we did factory work.
He was conscripted in the late 1930s, first to do factory work and later into the Wehrmacht.
Cultural clustering, according to Murray, also means that members of the New Elite are less likely to have attended Kiwanis or Rotary meetings, to have lived either in a small town or in an urban neighborhood in which most residents lack college degrees, to have spent even a year in poverty (or near poverty), done factory work, or had evangelical Christians among their close friends.
"A production operator who was on £31,000 is looking at a job doing general factory work at somewhere between £17,000 and £22,000".
Over the course of an hour, Mr. Hisle tapped out the fullest résumé he could, with its notations of Mr. Franklin's years doing construction, factory work, maintenance, grocery stocking and caregiving for a dying uncle.
His father, Jose de Oliveira, a Portuguese immigrant who did factory and carpentry work before retiring and often attended his son's concerts, died on Jan .2. Sandra Robbins, Mr. Oliveira's wife and the sister of his business partner, is a violist who sometimes travels and records with him.
